Friday, January 29, 2010

Structural Testing & Astronomy 101

Wonder Grass is proud to have started a collaboration with Mr. A. M. Shingarey. Mr. Shingarey who is a civil engineer with a post-graduation in Geotechnical Engineering from IIT Bombay (1978) will be assisting Wonder Grass in it's housing R&D as well as giving our research some professional credibility which is needed in the introduction of bamboo into the serious main stream building arena. Geo tech industries started with a small setup of laboratory and field testing - mostly covering the determination of physical and engineering properties of soils, the firm has continuously widened its scope. At present, it is the largest and most professionally managed laboratory in Central India with test facilities for soil, rock, cement, concrete, bitumen, building material and chemical analysis. With this kind
of collaboration, Wonder Grass will be become part of the pioneers
in bamboo building systems.

We are also happy to have the second lecture of our first of the month lecture series that is going to dive into the realm of astronomy. Our friend and avid astronomer Pramod Joshi will be sharing his knowledge of astronomy, and teaching our audience about constellations, the life of a star, and many more out of this world knowledge. He will also bring his telescopes that he made himself using innovative technology.
Please stay tuned for pictures, and amazing opportunities to see the work that Wondergrass does in this world, and others!

2 comments:

Chandra said...

Glad to hear of much needed bamboo tests, since so much is desired to be understood of its properties. Especially durability (long-term) ones.

Another thing, there was a post on your blog page which had some sarkari 7 to 8 minute video too. Slighlty un-exciting but very informative. Where is it gone? Why? It was purty cool to know about it from Wondergrass.

Chandra said...

BTW nice astro-poster.